Question follow-through · 84585

Ambulance Services: Suicide

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of attempted suicides attended by ambulance staff.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
23 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
1 Dec 2025 · 39 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of collecting data on the number of attempted suicides attended by ambulance staff.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 1 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Department has made no such assessment and there are currently no plans to collect this data centrally.

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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